skotobaza

9 ms·

91.
by skotobaza 1y ago
> and any money from sales goes to the company and its execs/shareholders Some companies may share a profit. I heard that Activision used to pay some of the revenue from Call of Duty to the developers, although I can't confirm
92.
by skotobaza 1y ago
In 2025 I expect an online store to have at least some cataloging option (like Steam's tags) and some user feedback (like Steam reviews or Steam community discussions). Yes, most of Steam's features are half-baked, and Valve doesn
93.
by skotobaza 1y ago
Which in turn makes some games unable to run anything (even single-player modes).
94.
by skotobaza 1y ago
> Skyrim is one of the most overrated video games ever Agreed. Most of the systems do not work as intended, the amount of content is very low compared to previous entries. There is no excuse for it to be released in such poor state, sinc
95.
by skotobaza 1y ago
But publishers can restrict your access to the game if you decline the latest update.
96.
by skotobaza 1y ago
Preservation and ease of modification. New console units are not being made anymore, and the number of old ones is limited, they can break, and there is an issue with output video formats that are incompatible with modern monitors/TVs.
97.
by skotobaza 1y ago
Why would they take it down? Decompilations of Nintendo games are on GitHub as well.
98.
by skotobaza 1y ago
I always thought of Go as a middle ground between C and Python. From C it gets simple syntax, from Python - "batteries included" part. Deserializing JSON and XML is a breeze from my experience. And it's available out of the b
99.
by skotobaza 1y ago
I suppose the author was expecting that people who read the article already knew what it's all about (i.e. the context) - switching browsers because of manifest version changes made by Google, and some "concerns" that people
100.
by skotobaza 1y ago
>I can't get the tone of the article or how I'm supposed to feel about it It's a tech article. What do you expect to feel while reading it?
101.
by skotobaza 1y ago
> are you comfortable telling artists what types of art they can create? Yes, absolutely. For instance, I think it's fine to prohibit artists to kill animals for the sake of making art. Or humans, but it's already outlawed.
102.
by skotobaza 1y ago
> I don't think the companies should be required to release server executables ever I still don't get why. If the company stops profiting from the product, they shouldn't care if people self-host it. Unless, of course, the
103.
by skotobaza 1y ago
It would be fair, but when you go online, everyone (and I mean everyone) shares their distaste for modern gaming industry and its practices. Yet, those practices still bring the most money to this day. So does it mean that people go against
104.
by skotobaza 1y ago
>You're confused about the meaning of "voting with your wallet". >You're confusing the lack of active participation with the presence of it. Probably. >you're describing people buying things on autopilot wi
105.
by skotobaza 1y ago
I don't think there is much trouble in re-releasing and remastering games, since the company does not forfeit its IP and it doesn't give anyone else the right to publish the same game. Plus no one suggests that the company should
106.
by skotobaza 1y ago
But it's true. Most people pay for what's being currently promoted. So "voting with wallet" doesn't really work, because you will be outvoted by majority of people who don't know what they're getting into.
107.
by skotobaza 1y ago
> don’t buy their games Not a solution. Other people will buy them and outvote you with their wallets. This has already happened. People did buy The Crew, and I doubt that most of them realized that it will be closed 10 years later.
108.
by skotobaza 1y ago
> if anyone (including this initiative) requires the release or maintenance of server builds or code, I am against it Why? What do you personally lose because of that?
109.
by skotobaza 1y ago
I think that most developers are just afraid to voice such anti-industry opinion. Gamedev is fairly small industry, so if you piss off wrong people, you might be left without job opportunities.
110.
by skotobaza 1y ago
> You want games with real vehicles or licensed music? Not really if it means that I wouldn't be able to play the game in 10 or 20 years.
111.
by skotobaza 1y ago
>may kill games before they're even made How? What games would be impossible to make with the proposed change?
112.
by skotobaza 1y ago
It's a "significant effort" only because it was made this way. You can design it to be easy hostable. It's just that there is no reason to do so currently. Stop killing games tries to give some legal reason.
113.
by skotobaza 2y ago
Do they really? Or are you assuming?
114.
by skotobaza 2y ago
Thanks! Your edit is good, more concise in the first half, and even easier to understand in the second half, compared to original.
115.
by skotobaza 2y ago
How would you rephrase it? I'm also a non-native English speaker, and the bit you provided sounds very easy to understand because of how it's phrased. There are minor redundancies, but that's all I noticed...
116.
by skotobaza 2y ago
> Learn using Linux: > 3yrs. That's quite dishonest in the context of general usage scenario.
117.
by skotobaza 2y ago
Only stuff like scanners and other basic stuff (that comes from devices that have been left unattended and without updates). But the actual malicious traffic is not that easy to spot, as it won't be router directly.
118.
by skotobaza 2y ago
Logically, if Russians would want to infiltrate your organization, they won't do it from Russian IPs directly, but instead do it from cheap proxies, and those proxies are abundant in Netherlands or Germany.
119.
by skotobaza 2y ago
The question is why those specific countries? Do you just assume that all connections made from, say, Netherlands, are safe by default?
120.
by skotobaza 2y ago
But if the binary came from US even with some malicious code, it would be OK simply because the origin is different?

More ›